Brussels, 25 September 2024

EuropaBio, the leading voice for the European biotechnology industry, joined the European APPROVALS project (Accelerating PROteins innoVAtors beyond regulatory Sandoboxes) launched on September 25th, 2024, and supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Program.

APROVALS is composed of eight partners, including Genopole, Campania Bioscience, EuropaBio, Irish Bioeconomy Foundation, Planet B.io, Smile Incubator Ab, Pôle Vitagora, VTT.

The project runs for 2.5 years and aims to aims to facilitate the deployment of emerging technologies in cellular agriculture, provide a supportive environment for testing and developing new solutions and enhance collaboration among innovators, regulators, and stakeholders.

A European Partnership to Advance Cellular Agriculture

In the coming decades, society will face the challenge of feeding a growing global population expected to reach 10 billion people by 2050. The latest advancements in biotechnology could offer solutions in food production. Cellular agriculture is a process that gives rise to a new range of foods, which can be derived from whole edible microbial cells (including bacteria, fungi, yeast, and algae), specific functional ingredients produced by precision fermentation, or even animal cells cultivated in the lab.